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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Tom Jarmey:
🎵 treading lightly
#TomJarmey
https://tomjarmey.bandcamp.com/track/treading-lightly-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/69u0ofdPVcGOUR4JjcftxO

Nvidia and HPE plan to build two new Vera Rubin-based supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory, for national security and scientific research (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.

Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory, total of seven new supercomputers — announcement comes on heels of AMD's recent supercomputer wins
Vera Rubin forges into supercomputers.

The U.S. patent for mp3 audio was granted on November 26 in 1996. This piece is kinda weird about it in spots, but it gives a decent history about how it laid the foundations for peer-to-peer music sharing, etc.

The U.S. patent for MP3 audio was granted on this day in 1996 — laid the foundations for peer-to-peer music sharing, iTunes, and today's streaming services
The Fraunhofer Institut had been working on its lossy audio compression tech for phone line transmission since 1977.

This book, "Last Boat from Tangier" by James von Leyden, published in 2020, seems nevertheless more relevant year after year. You'll know why when you follow the news.

Partly bright and sunny, but fully cold and with generous amounts of wind. “Brisk” doesn’t even begin to do it justice. Still, I am a freak and love this weather. It felt good to be out moving. #TeamShorts of course.
Walked briefly twice to bring my HR down a bit and then stopped to mug at this beautiful Great Blue Heron looking for their lunch. 🐟

Coast Guard Tracks Down Runaway Oil Tanker Linked to Iran and Venezuela (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/coast-guard-tracks-down-a-runaway-oil-tanker-linked-to-iran-and-venezuela-32f7660c
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p5#a251226p5

Varför normaltid (aka vintertid) är bättre för vårt välmående | Artikel https://tyngre.se/artiklar/forskning/varfor-evig-normaltid-dvs-vintertid-ar-bast-for-vart-valmaende

Varför normaltid (aka vintertid) är bättre för vårt välmående | Artikel
I helgen ställde vi alla om klockan igen och numera är det normaltid som gäller i några månader framöver.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Barr Brothers:
🎵 Another Tangerine
#TheBarrBrothers
https://thebarrbrothers.bandcamp.com/track/another-tangerine-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/4fh9KeSpcgTIGvSMYRnOiS

Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which recently hit Windows 11 as a public beta, uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not to train AI models (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Microsoft responds to Gaming Copilot controversy, says it uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not for training AI models — optional feature can be turned off, but not easily uninstalled
Microsoft says it isn't using your data to train its AI.

Filing: OpenAI denies liability in a suit alleging ChatGPT gave info about suicide methods to a 16-year-old who died by suicide, arguing he misused the chatbot (Angela Yang/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ope

OpenAI denies allegations that ChatGPT is to blame for a teenager's suicide
Warning: This article includes descriptions of self-harm